Today we were shown videos on stop motion and animation. One of videos we watched was a music video, "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. And all this while I was wondering where I had saw this name from and one day while looking through my music playlist, I found him, as a singer for a song on Wall-E's soundtrack. Heh. *small victory*
Was quite impressed by the stop motion in the Sledgehammer video, because there were so many elements in it and in those days that would actually be virtually impossible, but it happened, so really kudos to the animators seriously!
I was particularly impressed by Noah's Ark as well, it was like a compact and simple stop motion animation and the whole story was narrated like a rhyme. And the characters were too cute.
What's your favourite stop motion film? Mine is Jason and The Argonauts, from 1963, and the stop motion was created by Ray Harryhausen. It might look funny compared to all the visual effects laden films, but no matter what we can't deny that he contributed so much to the world of stop motion, which aesthetically satisfied our visual cravings.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
PIXAR exhibition on 3/6/2010
It meant no class day and generally we were all very excited; this was kinda like our first field trip in our 3 years of being stuck in school and it's PIXAR! So it was pretty awesome.
We went through the exhibitions and I was just blown away by the zoetrope in on of the exhibitions. It had the characters from Toy Story in it and each of the characters were sculpted many times, doing a cycle of an action, and when the zoetrope was activated, it started spinning slowly, then it gradually increased speed till our eyes were practically churning tears and then suddenly it became all too fast, a special light flashed on the zoetrope and we began to see what's happening, the whole thing came alive! We saw clearly what each character was meant to do, and we were awestruck. They were so cute, and just so alive. Heh.
We then went through the different exhibitions, and we really could see how much work, and effort artists put into their animation boards, 3D models, and their concept art, just so that we audience could have a real visual feast when each animation movie came out. After this, we really learnt how to appreciate animation films better, they are the results of pure sheer hard work.
Next we went to the screening of Toy Story 2! And I am ashamed to say that I have never watched it till that day, but no regrets, at least to be able to catch it once, is enough. The flow of the story was good, and adding in the comical characters, the movie was really made for success! It totally caught our attention till the end.
My favourite characters of Toy Story:
"You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful towards you."
Gets me everytime.
We went through the exhibitions and I was just blown away by the zoetrope in on of the exhibitions. It had the characters from Toy Story in it and each of the characters were sculpted many times, doing a cycle of an action, and when the zoetrope was activated, it started spinning slowly, then it gradually increased speed till our eyes were practically churning tears and then suddenly it became all too fast, a special light flashed on the zoetrope and we began to see what's happening, the whole thing came alive! We saw clearly what each character was meant to do, and we were awestruck. They were so cute, and just so alive. Heh.
We then went through the different exhibitions, and we really could see how much work, and effort artists put into their animation boards, 3D models, and their concept art, just so that we audience could have a real visual feast when each animation movie came out. After this, we really learnt how to appreciate animation films better, they are the results of pure sheer hard work.
Next we went to the screening of Toy Story 2! And I am ashamed to say that I have never watched it till that day, but no regrets, at least to be able to catch it once, is enough. The flow of the story was good, and adding in the comical characters, the movie was really made for success! It totally caught our attention till the end.
My favourite characters of Toy Story:
"You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful towards you."
Gets me everytime.
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